Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OpenTable

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep per consensus and article's improvement. PeaceNT 14:26, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OpenTable

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It is likely advertisement Anthony Appleyard 17:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep and Cleanup - the article needs improvement to reduce its "spamminess", but the website is clearly notable, both as the leader in its market space and per news coverage. If people want some sources to add to the article (which I highly recommend!), there appear to be quite a few relevant ones in this search. Here are a few to get started with (some of them are paid archive articles, sadly). JavaTenor 18:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

As a related note, the site's lengthy press page may have more useful resources, although some of the articles there appear to be trivial mentions in larger pieces. JavaTenor 19:09, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - abstaining from voting as I don't know enough about California to know whether this is important enough to warrant an entry. I know it's a hobby-horse of mine but AfD'ing an article four minutes after it was created, without even the courtesy of notifying the creator, may not technically break any wiki-rules but surely goes against the spirit. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 23:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Just as a note, the article had been around as Opentable for rather longer than that before being moved to OpenTable - see [1], so I don't think the AfD nomination was improper on that ground. As regards your abstention, I don't think this is a California-specific discussion; the corporation is based in California, but books reservations for restaurants in 46 states as well as Mexico, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and the UK. JavaTenor 23:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, as JavaTenor has demonstrated there are plenty of reliable sources asserting the website's notability, that could be used to source and clean up the article. Krimpet (talk/review) 00:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I've done some cleanup and adding of references on the article. Assistance on further improvement efforts would be appreciated. JavaTenor 06:39, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment Normally I'd try, but it's a subject so outside my area that I wouldn't be confident in getting anything right - what I know about California is pretty much gleaned from Beach Boys lyrics. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 15:16, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.